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Article: TYPEWRITERS FIXED HERE: A VIRGINIA BEACH REPAIRMAN REFUSES TO LET THE OLD MACHINES BE PUSHED TO THE MARGINS OF MODERN LIFE.(DAILY BREAK)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- July 11, 2004
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Byline: DENISE WATSON BATTS THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT\
VIRGINIA BEACH -- Howard Bivins dropped off the machine to Vo Tru earlier that day with a list of complaints: Its carriage wouldn't return, wouldn't move forward, the space bar wouldn't budge.
Tru knew instantly what was wrong: a gear steering the cables was broken.
He slipped on his glasses and settled behind the IBM Selectric III waiting on the counter near his shop's open door. He saw the loose cables that move the ribbon and carriage back and forth. He unclipped and removed the IBM's cover, took a flat-head screwdriver and pried off a safety lid shielding the inner workings. He needed to make ...
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